Trump expected another Venezuela — days, a toppled regime, a victory lap.

Instead Iran mined Hormuz, shut 20% of global oil flows, and turned gas prices and polls into the real front.

Iran does not need to win militarily. Iran needs to make the exit humiliating — The Atlantic. 1/

Trump can sell almost any paper as a win. He cannot sell a war with no ending.

The White House is still waiting for Iran to answer a one page memorandum that extends a cease fire, not a treaty. 2/

Gas prices and polls do not wait. Republicans get the complaints at the pump, not in Situation Room briefings.

Trump wants the war to end before it wrecks a midterm year. 3/

🧵 1/6 In Another Country, They'd Call It Corruption

DID YOU KNOW? For nearly 4 years (March 2020 to December 2023), the Canadian government had a policy that allowed international students to complete their entire college program overseas, on Zoom, never once setting foot in Canada, and still fully qualify for a Post-Graduation Work Permit.

This happened quietly. During a lockdown. While everyone was at home. And almost nobody talked about it.

Revisiting how Canada's international student program lost its integrity.

The Policy Timeline:
→ March 2020: COVID hits. Borders close. Students already enrolled cannot travel. IRCC introduces a temporary exemption — classes moved online will not affect PGWP eligibility. Reasonable. Nobody was going anywhere.
→ September 2020: Extended. Students can now complete up to 50% of their program from abroad and remain PGWP eligible. Still arguably defensible.

→ February 12, 2021: This is where temporary compassion became something else entirely. Then Immigration Minister Marco Mendicino announced that international students could now complete up to 100% of their program from outside Canada and still be fully eligible for a PGWP. His exact words: "Our message to international students and graduates is simple — we don't just want you to study here, we want you to stay here."

Study from overseas. Pay full Canadian tuition. Attend Zoom lectures at 2 am to account for the time zone. Never once inside a Canadian classroom. Full PGWP at the end.

And who lobbied for this? Colleges and Institutes Canada — the national body representing every college in the country — publicly stated they had been actively calling for exactly this flexibility. They asked and Ottawa delivered.

→ August 2022: Extended again, to August 2023, now scaled to 50% of a program completable from abroad.

→ September 2023: Extended once more to December 31, 2023, for students who had started between September 2022 and December 2023.

Nearly four years. Hundreds of thousands of study permits issued for programs being delivered substantially or entirely online to students sitting in other countries. Full tuition collected. Full PGWP pipeline maintained.

Why was intake never paused?
Because money mattered more than anything else. To the colleges. To the federal government. To every level of a system that depended on the numbers continuing to flow. A paused intake meant paused tuition. And nobody at any level was prepared to let that happen, even at the expense of the integrity of the ISP.

🧵 2/6

Here is the part that made this not just a bad policy but a catastrophically exploited one.

Normally, growing student intake requires infrastructure. More campuses. More classrooms. More instructors. More physical space. Which translates to money and time.

Virtual Classrooms eliminated that equation entirely.
- One instructor.
- Two hundred students.
- A virtual room.
- No new campus.
- No new classroom.
- No construction cost.
- No lease.
- Pure margin.

And here is where the public-private partnership machine which had been quietly building for over a decade, found its perfect moment.

→ 2005: The very first model was born. Cambrian College in Sudbury entered a licensing agreement with Hanson Canada, allowing Hanson to deliver Cambrian programs exclusively to international students at GTA campuses. One northern public college. One private GTA partner. Revenue flowing north from students who never went north.

→ ~2012: The Harper government attached a PR pathway to any two-year credential from a Canadian designated learning institution. Every non-GTA public college in Ontario suddenly wanted access to international students but the students wanted Toronto, not Timmins. PPPs were the workaround: public college credential, GTA delivery, PGWP access.

→ 2012 onwards: Nine new PPP deals signed in quick succession. For five of the six Ontario colleges that had PPPs by 2019–20, the tuition revenue from these arrangements was the single difference between surplus and deficit.

→ 2017: Senior Ontario civil servant David Trick formally recommended the Liberal government wind down PPPs entirely. The risks included predatory recruiting, low-quality education, PGWP misuse, were too great. A moratorium was recommended.

It never came.

→ 2019: The Ford government introduced a Binding Ministerial Policy on PPPs, but made the regulations so lax that virtually anyone could pass them. A grandfather clause meant northern colleges with 4,000 students at a Toronto PPP and barely any at their home campus just had to make vague suggestions about "coming into compliance over the long term."

→ 2020–2023 (COVID hits and the glitch activates):
No infrastructure costs. Zoom classrooms scaling to hundreds per session. A government policy saying study from anywhere, still get your PGWP. And an entire private college sector in the GTA ready to absorb unlimited students at zero marginal infrastructure cost.

PPP revenues grew from $268 million in 2020 as new players rushed in. By 2022, nearly every non-GTA public college in Ontario had a PPP.

The key players:
→ Hanson Canada with Cambrian College (Sudbury)
→ triOS College with Mohawk College + Sault College, Brampton/Mississauga/Toronto
→ Stanford International with Canadore College (North Bay), four GTA campuses
→ Alpha College with St. Lawrence College (Kingston)
→ ILAC International with Fanshawe + Georgian, four Toronto campuses
→ Toronto School of Management with Niagara College
→ Pures College with Northern College (Timmins)
→ Cestar / Queen's College with Lambton College

And lest anyone wonder why the Ford government kept regulations deliberately soft: Ontario's Colleges Minister Jill Dunlop raised over $151,000 from directors and executives of private PPP colleges between 2018 and 2022. Nearly $24,000 came from a single meet-and-greet in March 2022, where nearly a third of the 78 attendees were associated with public-private college partnerships.

The money wasn't just flowing into the colleges. It was flowing toward the people writing the rules.

- Zero infrastructure cost.
- Maximum student volume.
- Government-backed PGWP access.
- Soft regulations kept soft by political donations.
- And a Zoom policy that meant you didn't even need to be in the same country.

They had found the infinite money glitch. And they ran it for four years.

🧵 3/6

Now here is the part nobody in government wants to discuss.

This was 2020 to late 2023. ChatGPT launched publicly in November 2022. For the first two-plus years of this entire remote learning window, AI-assisted writing barely existed in any meaningful form.

What did exist and was exploding during exactly this period was the contract cheating industry. And Canada had no legislation to stop it.

University of Calgary researcher Sarah Elaine Eaton had already estimated in 2018 that more than 71,000 Canadian post-secondary students were engaged in contract cheating, outsourcing academic work to essay mills, assignment completion services, and exam personation providers.

By the pandemic, that number was accelerating dramatically. Contract cheating had become a global $15 billion USD industry. Canada had yet to take any nationwide action to stop it.

At the University of Toronto, academic misconduct cases in 2021–22 were 95% higher than pre-COVID. At the University of Alberta, cases doubled in 2020–21. They more than doubled at the University of Saskatchewan. They nearly doubled at McMaster. Every major Canadian institution showed the same trend.

Many student of them sitting in apartments in India, Pakistan, and Nigeria, attending Zoom lectures at midnight to account for time zones, under pressure to maintain grades in programs they were barely equipped for, in a language that wasn't their first, were, in their own admittance, paying roughly $100 a month flat fee to services that would handle assignments, online tests, discussion posts, and in some cases, final exams.

Full Canadian tuition being paid. Full PGWP waiting at graduation.

In one documented case at the University of Toronto in March 2021, a student hired an online tutor for just $60 to sit and write a 90-minute accounting exam on his behalf, joining the online exam using the student's own credentials, completely undetected.

That was one case that got caught. Researchers were clear: the vast majority never were.

Australia had legislated against essay mills by 2020. The UK had criminalized the provision of cheating services. Canada had done neither. The services operated openly, advertised openly, and scaled openly, during a period when every assessment had moved online and physical invigilation had ceased to exist.
And then there was the co-op and internship farce.

Many students specifically chose programs because of mandatory co-op components, real Canadian work experience, real employer connections, real industry exposure. Colleges advertised this heavily as the differentiator that made a Canadian diploma worth the price and the sacrifice.

During COVID, those mandatory placements were quietly reduced in many programs to a single remote project, completable from overseas. The Canadian work experience that was supposed to justify the entire "Statement of Purpose" to study abroad was replaced by a PDF submission from a bedroom overseas.

The colleges said nothing. Because admitting the product had been hollowed out meant losing students. And losing students meant losing revenue.

So what exactly was the academic credential certifying during these years? In many cases, that someone, not necessarily the student whose name was on the permit, had completed a series of online assessments, in a program that no longer required physical presence, for a co-op that had been reduced to a single remote project, at an institution collecting full tuition regardless of any of the above.

That is no longer a student program, but a retail product with an education credential label on it.

The news of your death will just be a story on social media for a few days. People will post you, talk about you, pray for you… then slowly move on with their lives.

Your family will miss you deeply.
You’ll remain in their hearts for some time.

But even grief changes with time.

After a week it feels different.
After a month it feels different.
After years, your name is only mentioned once in a while.

Then a generation comes after them.

Your brother’s children, your sister’s children, they may never know you personally.

Maybe they’ll only hear your name once and ask, “Who was that?”

This dunya forgets everyone.

8 rules that will solve 80% of your problems. Read them. Save them. Use them.

(Save this before it disappears).

1. If you're sad — run.
Sadness is stagnant energy. Movement forces it through you. You don't need motivation. You just need to put one foot in front of the other. After 10 minutes, your chemistry shifts. After 20, you remember what it
feels like to feel something else.

2. If you have no ideas — read.
Creativity is not magic. It's input. You can't generate something from nothing. Read one page. One
paragraph. One quote. Let someone else's words unstick yours.

violence is morally neutral. very good take. no problems whatsoever. entirely airtight argument.

https://twitter.com/hfkzelda/status/2052852804822147148

here's the thing about this moronic anti-vegan discourse. there is a rich philosophical literature on these questions - dietary ethics, animal use, violence against animals, etc. - and on the nuances and contradictions therein, but the popular discourse is so paltry and unread.

twitter, by its nature, is not a philosophical journal or the space for deep engagement, but there is a sort of proud ignorance - or perhaps proud superficiality - in so many of these comments that it's impossible to not treat them as either bad faith or outright stupid.

#yoonminau #jimsu where,

Yoongi is out with his friends to a club, they've dragged him out for his 20th birthday to celebrate. The place is loud, bustling with people and music and alcohol. The beats thrum through his body vibrating through the floor.

https://twitter.com/dilfjmfest/status/2051300821376131562

Multiple rounds of alcohol and the group was already loud and boisterous, laughing and swaying to the music.

Yoongi was flushed after only a few shots of drinks, cheeks pink and a wide smile on pouty lips. They were at a booth, four people cramped up in the small space.

"Let's play truth or dare!" One of them shouted, raising his hand up high in the air. The others agreed enthusiastically. Only Yoongi shook his head reluctantly. He was already buzzing with the alcohol running through his blood, but it still wasn't much to get him to agree.

The National Trust's reply brief in the ballroom case dropped Wednesday night. It is a quietly brutal filing and accuses three of DOJ's most senior lawyers of making false factual claims.

For anyone who wants to read it themselves, the National Trust's May 7 reply in the East Wing ballroom case is here:
zurl.co/6fDXu

For more on the broader pattern of subordinating institutional rules, legal process, and independent oversight to personal power and political loyalty, see the Substack piece, “Rule of Law vs. Rule of One.”
steadystate1.substack.com/p/rule-of-law-…

ACADEMIC COMEBACK

1️⃣ Find Your Why

Start with understanding your motivation and figure out why you want good grades or this degree. This will help you at the beginning and in moments when you feel like giving up. Create a vision board with study motivation quotes or pictures of your desired career, etc.

2️⃣ Identify the Problem

Next, look at the subjects and topics where you're struggling and possibly why. Do you never do your homework? Do you miss too many classes, or as is often the case, do you have significant gaps in your knowledge? Write down where these gaps are and what topics they cover.

3️⃣ Planning

Create a study plan and use tools that can help you. Don't overwhelm yourself with tasks; instead, tackle everything step by step, topic by topic. If necessary, start from the very basics, like learning the fundamental laws in math or the periodic table in chemistry, and try to address your gaps from the core.

4️⃣ Consistency

This journey won't be easy, but if you keep going even on the tough days, it will pay off.

5️⃣ Rest

Don't stress yourself out, even if things aren't going as planned. It's not the outcome but the journey that matters. Be proud of every step you take and make sure to give yourself enough breaks.

Debunking the "We Were Just Fighting the Soviets" !

Across the post-Soviet Baltic states and in post-Maidan Ukraine, a remarkably consistent historical narrative has taken root, one laundered through nationalist historiography, enshrined in official commemorations, and promoted with the financial backing of Western governments eager for Cold War 2.0 allies. It goes roughly like this:

"Yes, some of our people fought alongside the Germans. But they weren't Nazis. They were patriots. They were fighting Soviet occupation, not helping Hitler. The real enemy was Stalin, not the Jews or the Poles. The SS insignia on their collars was just a uniform of convenience. Judge them not by who they fought for, but by what they fought against." It is the historical equivalent of defending a man who burned down an orphanage by noting that he genuinely hated the landlord next door.

This article will dismantle this myth, piece by piece, with the historical record as the demolition tool. We will examine the Ukrainian nationalists of the OUN and UPA, the Waffen-SS Galicia Division, and the Estonian and Latvian SS Legions. We will look not at what their modern apologists claim they did, but at what the documented historical evidence shows they actually did.

Part I: Ukraine, The OUN, the UPA, and the Mountains of the Dead

Who Were the OUN?

The Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) was founded in 1929, and by the late 1930s had split into two factions: the OUN-M, led by Andriy Melnyk, and the more radical OUN-B, led by Stepan Bandera. Both factions were ideologically fascist in the classical sense, not as a slur, but as a precise descriptor. The OUN's own documents and ideological texts from the period are explicit about this.

The OUN's 1929 founding congress enshrined a doctrine of ethnic exclusivism and violent struggle. Its youth wing, the Юнацтво (Yunatstvo), was modeled explicitly on the Hitler Youth. The OUN celebrated the "national leader" (vozhd') principle, a Ukrainian Führer principle. Its publications from the 1930s openly expressed admiration for Mussolini, Hitler, and Franco. This was not guilt by association. This was ideological self-identification.

Bandera himself had been implicated in the assassination of Polish Interior Minister Bronisław Pieracki in 1934 and was imprisoned by Polish authorities. He was released by the Germans upon their invasion of Poland in 1939. The Germans didn't release him because they were fans of Ukrainian self-determination. They released him because he was useful.

The apologist argument demands that we see OUN collaboration with Nazi Germany as reluctant, tactical, and temporary. The historical record shows the opposite. Before the invasion of the Soviet Union, the OUN-B was actively working with German military intelligence (the Abwehr). The OUN trained two battalions, Nachtigall and Roland, under German command.

These were not underground resistance fighters. These were uniformed auxiliary units integrated into the Wehrmacht's operational structure for Operation Barbarossa. They were, by every legal and military definition, German auxiliary troops.

The OUN-B had prepared detailed operational plans, the so-called "Instruction to the OUN in the period of war" (June 1941), which explicitly called for the "destruction" of hostile ethnic groups including Jews, Poles, and Russians. The document stated: "Jews are to be isolated, imprisoned in concentration camps and liquidated."

Lviv, July 1941:

When German forces entered Lviv on June 30, 1941, what followed was one of the most vicious urban massacres of the early war. Over the course of several days, between 4,000 and 6,000 Jews were murdered in Lviv, beaten to death in the streets, shot in courtyards, dragged from their homes.

Part 2:

The nationalist apologist playbook always describes these events as "German-instigated" and "spontaneous." The historical record is more damning. The Nachtigall Battalion, composed of OUN members under German command, entered Lviv as part of the invasion force. Eyewitness testimony and German documentation both confirm active Ukrainian nationalist participation in the roundup and killing of Jewish civilians during what became known as the Lviv Pogrom of 1941.

Babyn Yar:

On September 29–30, 1941, German Einsatzgruppen and German police units massacred 33,771 Jews in the ravine of Babyn Yar outside Kyiv in two days, one of the single largest mass shooting events of the Holocaust. The Ukrainian Auxiliary Police, organized and staffed in large part by OUN members, participated in the roundup, the march, and the cordon that made the massacre logistically possible.

The Germans could not have organized and executed the Babyn Yar massacre with such speed and such numbers without local assistance. Ukrainian auxiliary police provided that assistance. To claim the OUN was "just fighting the Soviets" at Babyn Yar requires one to ignore that the Soviets were not present, only Jews, Germans, and Ukrainian policemen.

The UPA and the Volhynia Massacres: Ethnic Cleansing as Policy

Perhaps the single most devastating refutation of the "anti-Soviet resistance" narrative is the Volhynia Massacre of 1943–1945, carried out by the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA), the OUN-B's military wing.

Between 1943 and 1945, the UPA systematically murdered 100,000 ethnic Poles in the Volhynia and Eastern Galicia regions. This was not collateral damage. This was not wartime chaos. This was deliberate, planned ethnic cleansing with a stated goal: to create an ethnically pure Ukrainian state by eliminating the Polish population.

The methods employed were medieval in their savagery. Entire villages were surrounded at night and every man, woman, and child murdered. Victims were burned alive in churches, hacked with agricultural tools, bayoneted. Pregnant women were specifically targeted. Children were killed in front of their parents.

The Waffen-SS Galicia Division: "Volunteers" for Hitler

In 1943, the Germans organized the 14th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (1st Galician), composed of Ukrainian volunteers from Galicia. Today this division is celebrated in Ukraine with annual marches, veterans' monuments, and official rehabilitation.

The apologists argue: they were just fighting the Soviets. Let us examine this claim.

First, the division was organized under SS command, the same organizational structure responsible for running the concentration camps, the Einsatzgruppen, and the Holocaust apparatus. Membership in the Waffen-SS required an oath of personal loyalty to Adolf Hitler.

Second, division members had in many cases already served in the Ukrainian Auxiliary Police, units that had participated directly in Holocaust operations throughout 1941–1943.

The Baltic States: Celebrating the Holocaust's Local Executioners

If Ukrainian collaboration was catastrophic, Baltic collaboration in the Holocaust was, proportionally, among the most complete in all of occupied Europe.

Lithuania: Approximately 96% of Lithuanian Jews, around 200,000 people, were murdered during the German occupation.

Latvia: Approximately 70,000 Latvian Jews, roughly 90% of the prewar Jewish population, were murdered, with substantial participation by Latvian auxiliary police.

Estonia: Estonia was declared "Judenfrei" (free of Jews) by the Germans in 1942, a grim distinction it shares with very few territories.

Part 3:

Lithuania and the Ponary Massacres

Outside Vilnius, in the forest of Ponary (Paneriai), between 70,000 and 100,000 people were murdered between 1941 and 1944, the vast majority of them Jews. The killings were carried out by German SD units assisted by the Ypatingasis būrys, the Lithuanian Special Squad, a volunteer auxiliary unit.

The Ypatingasis būrys was not conscripted. It was a volunteer force. Its members signed up to do this work. Surviving perpetrator testimony documents their active and enthusiastic participation.

Latvia: The Arajs Kommando and Rumbula

In Latvia, the instrument of the Holocaust was largely the Arajs Kommando, a volunteer Latvian auxiliary unit commanded by Viktors Arājs.

At Rumbula on November 30 and December 8, 1941, approximately 25,000 Jews were shot in two days, including nearly the entire population of the Riga Ghetto. German SS officer Friedrich Jeckeln organized the operation, but Latvian auxiliary police provided the cordon, the march, and much of the shooting.

The Estonian SS Legion: Defending Europe from... Whom?

The Estonian SS Legion is presented by its modern defenders as a purely military force of patriots defending their homeland from Soviet reconquest. Like all the other "only fighting the Soviets" arguments, this one collapses under scrutiny.

Estonian auxiliary police units, the Omakaitse (Home Guard) and other formations, participated actively in the murder of Estonian Jews and Jews deported to Estonia from elsewhere in Europe.

Dismantling the Specific Arguments!

Argument 1: "They Were Responding to Soviet Oppression"

This argument attempts to establish moral equivalence between Soviet deportations and Nazi genocide, and then use that equivalence to excuse collaboration.

The Soviet deportations of 1940–1941, targeted perceived political enemies, not ethnic groups for biological annihilation. The Jews of Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, and Ukraine were not Soviet agents. They were civilians who had lived in these territories for centuries. Killing them was not a response to Soviet oppression. It was a pogrom dressed up in anti-communist rhetoric.

Argument 2: "The Germans Forced Them, They Had No Choice"

This argument is factually false in nearly every case under examination.

The OUN battalions Nachtigall and Roland were organized before Operation Barbarossa. Their members traveled to Germany for training. They were not coerced. They applied.

The Arajs Kommando in Latvia was explicitly a volunteer unit. German documents note with satisfaction that they had no shortage of recruits.

Furthermore, the historical record of German-occupied Europe contains numerous examples of individuals and communities who refused to participate in Holocaust operations and who, in the overwhelming majority of cases, faced no capital punishment for their refusal.

Argument 3: "The Soviets Committed Equal or Greater Crimes "

This is not merely whataboutism; it is fabricated history deployed in the service of fascist rehabilitation, and it must be confronted directly rather than conceded to.

The foundational claims of this argument, the Holodomor as deliberate genocide, the Katyn massacre as an NKVD atrocity, the Gulag as a system of exterminatory slavery, are themselves products of Western Cold War propaganda infrastructure, laundered through nationalist émigré networks, CIA-funded publishing houses, and post-1991 archive-mining conducted with a predetermined conclusion.

The "Holodomor genocide" thesis, for instance, was weaponized politically long before it was seriously examined historically. The 1932–33 famine was a catastrophic policy failure during a period of forced collectivization that affected Russians, Kazakhs, and other Soviet peoples in addition to Ukrainians, not an ethnically targeted extermination program.

🧵DSA-LA’s 2026 voter guide is not just a list of endorsements. It is full of dirty laundry and ruthless pragmatism.

They recommend Nithya Raman for mayor over DSA member Rae Huang, even after admitting DSA-LA previously censured Raman for accepting a pro-Israel Democratic club endorsement.

They frame Marissa Roy as their first citywide power play, celebrate Eunisses Hernandez as the anti-LAPD model of socialist electoralism, praise Hugo Soto-Martinez’s “co-governance,” and describe Faizah Malik’s opponent Traci Park as “a nexus point of every working class enemy interest in LA.”

It certainly says a lot that @spencerpratt’s section in DSA-LA’s Primary Election Voter Guide focuses more on The Hills than on his actual platform.

DSA-LA does not refute Spencer Pratt’s ideas. It doesn't even mention them. Instead, the guide treats him like a pop-culture punchline because engaging his actual message would mean admitting he is speaking to real frustration in Los Angeles politics.

And that treatment appears to be unique. Other candidates get ideological labels, policy summaries, donor analysis, and strategic assessments. Pratt gets reality TV jokes, an AARP bit, and a hat joke.

But the funny part is that Pratt’s rise is still forcing DSA-LA into a tactical corner. Their own guide admits he is polling high enough to make the runoff, and that if he does, Karen Bass is probably cruising to a second term.

So after all the internal drama, the straw poll, and the obvious discomfort with Nithya Raman, DSA-LA still lands on Raman because Pratt has made the math unavoidable. They may mock him, but they are also reacting to him.

DSA-LA’s writeup on Nithya Raman is basically a case study in reluctant pragmatism.

They admit Raman has repeatedly broken with the left. She accepted an endorsement from a pro-Israel Democratic club, which led DSA-LA members to approve a censure in 2024. She broke ranks on Measure ULA. She has split from other socialist councilmembers on police funding. And she has said she would not shrink LAPD manpower as mayor.

They also admit Rae Huang has the more radical grassroots platform. But then they turn around and recommend Raman anyway.

Why? Because DSA-LA knows the math. Raman is the only candidate besides Bass and Spencer Pratt polling in double digits, and Pratt’s rise has made the jungle primary impossible for them to ignore. DSA-LA lands on the candidate they are clearly uneasy about because she is the only realistic left-wing vehicle to stop a Bass vs. Pratt runoff.

They even underline the point themselves: “It is not an endorsement.” 😆

Please stop neglecting the health of your kidneys.

A scary amount of people have kidney issues and most didn't even consider that this is the case despite symptoms such as fatigue, high blood pressure, intolerance to amino acid and mineral supplements, urine changes etc.

In fact, almost 1 in 5 Americans has kidney disease.
Kidney failure is, after all, one of the most common diseases today.

So let's talk about how to take care of your kidneys (tests, dietary interventions, supplements, etc) .

Thread 🧵

*Yes, i'll also mention gout.

*Standard disclaimer that nothing in this thread should be used as a substitute for medical advice*

It's George and today we will talk about the kidneys.
A quite important, yet neglected organ.

As always the structure of this thread will follow my typical writing style which is:
-A basic breakdown of the organs
-Why they are important
-Tests you can take in order to assess their function
-What our kidneys need by default in order to be healthy
-Supplements/tools overall you can use for certain conditions
-Genetic factors

Why all these?

Well, because by understanding the main functions of an organ for example, you will immediately understand why its dysfunction causes certain symptoms that you might be experiencing.

Let's dive in.

Now under the lower ribs in the posterior abdomen behind the peritoneum (if you are familiar with vertebrae, your kidneys extend from T12 to L3) we have these bean shaped organs that weigh roughly 130-140 grams and have a 10-14 cm long if you are a man and weigh 110 grams and are 9-13 cm long if you are a woman (this does not mean that they can weigh more and for someone to still have healthy kidneys since someone's height weight and so on will affect the size of them) called the kidneys that are also usually around 2-3 cm thick and 5-7cm in wide.

As we will see very soon these little organs are vital for our health and paying more attention to them could be the missing puzzle piece/link that will allow you to further improve your health.

Pro-independence activists needed 177,732 signatures. They just delivered nearly 302,000.

Alberta’s Brexit moment is here. Ottawa can no longer dismiss Western alienation as fringe noise.

A reckoning is coming.

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2/ Alberta isn’t just another province with political gripes. It is the productive, energy-rich, conservative West — treated by Ottawa like a colony.

Equalization payments siphon billions east (mostly to Quebec). Pipelines are blocked. The energy sector is sabotaged. Values are mocked. Ottawa extracts wealth and demands gratitude.

This isn’t Confederation. It’s subjugation.

3/ Mark Carney makes it even worse.

Carney is the textbook globalist: hostile to energy, at home in Davos and Brussels, and now pivoting hard to Communist China.

He just announced a “new strategic partnership” with Beijing.

For Alberta, that isn’t a future. It’s a prison sentence.